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Three Soldiers
John DOS Passos
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R959
Discovery Miles 9 590
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A little later Fuselli woke with a choked nightmare cry. He had
dreamed that he had smashed the O.D. in the jaw and had broken out
of the jug and was running, breathless, stumbling, falling, while
the company on guard chased him down an avenue lined with little
dried-up saplings, gaining on him, while with voices metallic as
the clicking of rifle triggers officers shouted orders, so that he
was certain to be caught, certain to be shot. He shook himself all
over, shaking off the nightmare as a dog shakes off water, and went
back to sleep again, snuggling into his blankets.
Based on the author's first-hand experience as an ambulance driver
during World War I, this first novel is noteworthy for its vivid
and colorful portrait of France at that time and for its passionate
indictment of war. The author's disillusionment with war, for a
time, turned him toward socialism and against capitalism. Finally,
after being labeled "pro-German" and "pacifist," Dos Passos
concluded that the quasi-religion of Marxism was far more brutal
than "poor old Capitalism ever dreamed of." Reprinted from the
unexpurgated original edition published by Cornell University Press
in 1969.
Unique among American novels for its epic scope and panoramic and
social sweep, John Dos Passos' U.S.A. has long been acknowledged as
a monument of modern fiction. In the novels that make up the
trilogy - The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money
(1936) - Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of
America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social
observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the
events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking
technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively
readable of modern classics. In his prologue Dos Passos writes:
"U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding
companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound
in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a
column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in by a Western
Union boy on a blackboard, a public library full of old newspapers
and dogeared history books with protests scrawled on the margins in
pencil...But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people". The
trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and
advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior
decorators and movie stars. The volume contains newly researched
chronologies of Dos Passos' life and of world events cited in
U.S.A., notes, and an essay on textual selection.
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Up from Liberalism (Hardcover)
William F Jr. Buckley; Foreword by John DOS Passos; Introduction by Barry Morris Goldwater
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R1,075
Discovery Miles 10 750
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Streets Of Night
John DOS Passos
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R355
Discovery Miles 3 550
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses "camera eye" and "newsreel" sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, he buids up a composite picture of American society in the first quarter of the 20th century.
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Three Soldiers
John DOS Passos
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R736
Discovery Miles 7 360
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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